What is correct attire?

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The crop top or short tee-shirt, the garment of the iStock / PeopleImage scandal

50 min

Skirt too short, “crop top”, neckline too plunging for girls, hood, or cap for boys: what is a correct outfit?

Are women discriminated against and men freed to dress as they wish?

Should certain outfits be banned at work or at school?

At the risk of a wave of high school protests on the internet, as last September in France with # monday14septembre? 

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With:

• Gabrielle Richard

  , gender sociologist, researcher associated with

  the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on the Transformations of Educational and Social Practices (LIRTES) at the University of Paris-Est Créteil

  and at the

  Research Chair on Homophobia at the University of Quebec to Montreal

• Yves-Laurent GOMA

  , RFI correspondent in Gabon. In February 2020, the dean of the

  Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of Omar Bongo University in Libreville

  , Monique Mavoungou Bouyou, invited the heads of departments to put an end to “ sartorial drifts ”of the students.

  A decision already applied in the Gabonese public administration.

  Feedback on these clothing requirements with our correspondent in Libreville

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